The old man smoothed his goatee and said with a smile: "Okay, everyone, sit down, this numerology method of divination of good and bad luck, divination and divination are extraordinary! What I inherited is the lineage of horoscopes. , although I dare not say that I can change my destiny against the will of heaven, but if I meet this destined person, it will not be too difficult to turn bad luck into good luck! I just looked at you from a distance and saw that your face was full of gloom and black energy lingered around you. If you are so unlucky, you will naturally not get what you ask for!"
"Dark energy? Bad luck? What does this mean?"
The old man said calmly: "No hurry, no hurry, tell me your birthday first!"
After the aunt announced her birthday, the old man with the goatee immediately wrote the corresponding horoscope on the yellow paper. Then he carefully looked at the palm prints of the aunt's hands, stroking his beard and shaking his head and thinking for a long time.
"You were born in the Jiachou month, Guisi day, Jiayin time in the Gengshen year. Your horoscope is Guishui. You have all the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, neither deficient nor prosperous. You will have an ordinary life. Although it is difficult to have great wealth, there will be no major disasters. You worked hard during your youth and did not keep your ancestral property, but you will enjoy the luck of having children and will become prosperous in middle age. The person you marry is strong and stubborn, but he is also hard-working and willing to work.
Look at your palm print again. The mound of Venus is quite full, and the compatibility for heirs is not bad. The child breath line is based on the marriage line. The three vertical lines are deep and clear, two are long and one is short. The longer one goes up and the short one goes down. This means that you have two children. A son and a daughter! The first line of this child's breath line is smooth, full and free of wrinkles, and goes straight to the middle line of the little finger. Your eldest son must have some talent in studying for the imperial examination. What you asked for in the temple just now is about the future of your eldest son, and the result will definitely be unsatisfactory! "
Mrs. Wang, who was a little doubtful at first, heard about the old man in front of her. She could tell directly with the eight-character handprint alone that she had two sons and one daughter. The eldest son was good at studying, and she had just taken the imperial examination for Chu Ren in August. When it comes to asking for a lottery ticket, it’s really a winning lottery!
Mrs. Wang couldn't help but nodded excitedly. She had met the master: "Yes, yes, yes, master, everything you said is right!"
"Combining your horoscope and face with your palm prints, you will have to endure some hard work when you are young, but you will be blessed with heirs in middle age. But now that you are in your forties, your life is still not easy. Shun, even the destiny of the descendants has been suppressed, do you know why?"
"This...is this the black energy you are talking about, Master?"
"Exactly, the black energy around you is gathering and not dissipating. If things go on like this, it will destroy your fortune. Not only will you be unsatisfied, but the people around you may also be plagued by bad luck, especially the person who can help you, which is you. The eldest son is even more difficult and depressed!" After speaking, the old man with the goatee gently stroked his beard, closed his eyes, shook his head and sighed, as if he was very sorry.
As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Wang became a little suspicious: "Master, my son Aren won the scholarship at the age of twenty. This is the only one in the whole village for several years! There has never been another one like him in the village in these years. Yes, even the teachers in the private schools in the town said he was talented and could read! How could he fail to achieve his goals?"
"Yes, your son is indeed very talented when it comes to studying and taking the imperial examination, but he has not made any progress since he passed the scholar examination at the age of twenty. Isn't it true that he has failed in the examination many times?"
"This..." Wang was speechless for a moment. The master was right. Chu Ren was a scholar who passed the exam in the 14th year of Yonghe. He is now in the 22nd year of Yonghe. He went to Fucheng three times to take the exam, but he is still a scholar now. No progress at all.
The old man smiled calmly: "I just said that this is a cumulative process, just like the newly planted saplings. At first, the shadow may not be able to cover even an insect, but as the cold and summer come, the taller the saplings become. , the bigger the shadow becomes, not to mention a person, it covers your whole family. When the prince was selected as a scholar, your bad luck could not overshadow his luck. As for now, the result should be in your mind. very clear!"
Grandma Chu thought, isn't that what happened? Their family used to have a good life, but later on, they didn't know what happened, and it became more and more difficult. Could it be that the Wang family's bad luck affected their family? Now just hearing about it has already affected her eldest grandson’s future, so that’s not okay!
Pushing away Mrs. Wang who was a little stunned, Grandma Chu asked: "How could this happen? Master, you must have a way to break it. You must help break it. Don't let it harm my grandson!"
The old man with the goatee didn't pay attention to Grandma Chu's words, but continued to stare at Mrs. Wang and said: "You have to ask yourself, did you do something to cause this black energy to keep haunting you! Alas! , In this life, the amount of income is determined by God. If you take something that should not belong to you, you will naturally have to pay the corresponding price. This is the law of heaven and cannot be violated!"
"Ms. Wang, what did you do to cause such a big disaster! Master, you can't just ignore it, you must help us. We will pay for whatever money is needed!"
"I, I didn't take anything! Master, please help me, please!"
Listening to Grandma Chu and Mrs. Wang's cry, the old man with a goatee waved his hand: "That's all, for the sake of fate, I don't want a penny from you, but I can give you some advice."
If Mrs. Wang and Grandma Chu still had even the slightest suspicion, after hearing these words, their defenses were completely shattered!
Those who set up stalls to deceive people are just for money. Not only are the masters in front of them right, but they also don’t take any money from them. This is like a living god alive!
"Thank you, master! Thank you, master!" ("Thank you! Thank you, master!")
"As for the method of cracking the bell, please remember that the person who tied the bell must return it to its original owner, accumulate virtue and do good deeds, go back and think about it!" After that, he stopped talking, closed his eyes and rested, letting Wang No matter how much I begged and begged by Grandma Chu, I ignored her!
On the way home, Grandma Chu kept frowning, and every now and then she would drag Mrs. Wang and mutter something: "What did you take that you shouldn't have taken? Did you steal an offering, or did you dig someone's grave?" ? Provoking such a big grievance against someone who cannot be provoked!"
But Wang couldn't say anything, she just kept sighing.
The four of them set out happily early in the morning, but when they came back, Grandma Chu and Mrs. Wang both had sad faces. Uncle Chu saw his grandma and sister-in-law entering the main room, and hurriedly stopped his nephew who was walking behind: "What's going on?" ? Why don’t you look too happy?”
"I met a fortune teller and said some not-so-good things."
"What bad things did you say?"
Chu Yi felt a little embarrassed and didn't know what to say. After thinking about it, he could only advise: "It's probably a scammer. Don't ask, third uncle. I haven't defrauded anyone out of money."
In order to avoid being questioned again, the young couple sent Uncle Chu back to his room, and then immediately returned to their own room, lying that they were tired and would not leave the house again.
Grandma Chu went out for a walk and was not in the house, which gave Grandma Chu and Mrs. Wang space to discuss.
"Tell me about you, why did our old Chu family have a daughter-in-law like you? Chu Ren asked you to delay him! Master didn't tell you to think about it, but you asked me to think about it. What did you get? What should I get?"
Mrs. Wang rubbed her hands and felt a little at a loss: "Auntie, do you think she could be the second younger sibling..."
When she was halfway up the mountain, Wang was indeed a little confused. As she was going down the mountain, she thought about what the master had said to her over and over again, and suddenly a light flashed through her mind. Could it be that time?
But Chu Yi and Shen Luzhu were following behind them at that time. Faced with Grandma Chu's questioning, Mrs. Wang could only pretend to be ignorant and sigh.
"What's wrong with the Cui family?" As soon as Chu A'nai said the words, she also remembered something: "You mean that pendant? No way, the Cui family members are all gone, how can they still mess with Ah Ren's business!"
Mrs. Wang glanced around and timidly said in Grandma Chu's ear, "It's just because there are no more people..."
Grandma Chu was also a little frightened by Mrs. Wang. She pushed away Mrs. Wang who was next to her and rubbed her arms: "Don't talk nonsense!"
"Auntie, apart from that incident, my daughter-in-law really can't remember taking anything that belongs to others!"
"If you think about it again, will it really be gone?"
"there is none left……"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fell into silence for a while. Grandma Chu recalled all the things that happened in the family over the years. The more she thought about it, the more she felt a chill on her back. It seemed that things happened one after another after the second daughter-in-law left. Damn it!
First, the second son was gone, and then the third son broke his leg. The third daughter-in-law ran back to her parents' home. Finally, the eldest grandson passed the examination to become a scholar, but the family split up soon after! And since then, the eldest grandson has gone to Fucheng to take the imperial examination several times, but he has never passed!
"Could it really be Mrs. Cui? It's all your fault! If you hadn't been greedy, why would this mess have happened today!"
"Then Auntie, you didn't stop me either..." Wang murmured in dissatisfaction.
"How dare you say that!"
Back then, Chu Yi and his mother-in-law, Cui Shi, had difficulty giving birth to Chu Li. It took a lot of effort to give birth to Chu Li. Although the child was saved, Cui Shi passed out from bleeding. When the doctor arrived, he drank several decoctions and finally stopped the bleeding.
Chu's father thought that he was fine, but the doctor shook his head: "My wife has lost too much blood and has damaged her roots. Now she is running out of oil. I'm afraid she won't be able to hold on for long."
Unlike most couples in the village, Chu's father had identified Cui Honglian from the Cui family and came to ask for her hand in marriage. The couple had always had a deep relationship. The sudden bad news gave Chu's father a huge blow, but several people After all the doctors shook their heads and left, Chu's father had to accept this fact.
The smell of blood in the room was very strong, so all the blood-stained bedding on the kang had to be replaced and thoroughly wiped and ventilated.
It was already mid-October. Not to mention newborns and mothers, even a strong adult man might get sick from the cold if he stayed in a room with the doors and windows wide open for an hour and a half.
Chu's father wrapped his wife and children in thick quilts and carried them to his eldest son Chu Yi's room. Perhaps they had recovered a little, and Ms. Cui finally came to her senses. The family of four gathered together to spend the last time together.
Mrs. Cui is unable to breastfeed her baby at the moment. Mrs. Sun, the third daughter-in-law, is cooking rice soup and medicine for Cui on the stove. Grandma Chu said she wanted to go to a nearby house in the village to see if she could get some milk for the newborn. Chu Li drank.
As the sister-in-law, Mrs. Wang wanted to clean Cui's house after getting hot water. She had just rolled up the blood-stained bedding and put it aside when she saw something seemed to be pressed under the pillow. When she pulled it out, it was a pendant with a silver edge. , looks like, could it be a jade one?
Cui took it off just before giving birth and put it under the pillow. She was so busy after that that she forgot about it.
Mrs. Wang secretly thought, why didn't she find something so valuable in her second sibling's room before? It was hidden quite deep, and she didn't know if there were any other treasures hidden?
Playing with the pendant in her hand, Wang suddenly had some bad thoughts. She opened the door and window and looked outside. Seeing that there was no one around, she started to rummage around the house.
But except for a few wooden hairpins and the clothes and bedding in the cabinet, Wang spent a long time but found nothing else!
While he was flipping through the pages, Grandma Chu walked in from outside the house at some point: "If you don't hurry up and clean up the house, why are you flipping around here?"
Mrs. Wang was so frightened that her heart felt like it was going to pop out of her heart. Seeing that it was her mother-in-law, she calmed down and reached out to pat her chest to calm herself down: "It's nothing, this is just a matter of course!"
Glancing at Wang's right hand behind her back, Grandma Chu's face sank, she stepped forward and pulled Wang's arm, opened her hand, and saw the pendant tied with a black rope: "You can hide it what is this?"
Seeing that the matter was revealed, Mrs. Wang was about to explain: "Mom, this is..." when she heard someone coming outside the house again!
"Auntie, I've invited my second sister-in-law's family here. Where are my second brother and my second sister-in-law?"
It turned out that Chu's father had just realized the reality and asked his third brother to invite his father-in-law's family over, thinking that his wife would finally meet him!
Grandma Chu turned around and blocked her eldest daughter-in-law Wang behind her: "This house is dirty, move it to the next door!"
"Then what are you and sister-in-law doing here?"
"What else can you do? Just clean up the house. Why don't you take your in-laws to see your second sister-in-law soon..."
"My husband, please bring this medicine and rice soup to the second sister-in-law. I and the eldest sister-in-law will clean it up together. Mom, please take a rest!" It was the third daughter-in-law, Sun Shi, who came out of the kitchen with a tray.
Grandma Chu had no choice but to follow the Cui family into the next room.
While Mrs. Sun was concentrating on cleaning up the house, Mrs. Wang quickly found an opportunity to stuff the pendant into her sleeve, fearing that someone would catch her if she was a step too late!
The Cui family members stayed by Ms. Cui's side since they arrived. It was just as the doctor said. A few hours later, Ms. Cui closed her eyes reluctantly in the company of her family members.
